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Matthew Bartlett, a 28-year-old server at an Orlando TGI Fridays, was disciplined before a national audience by an Orlando judge on Thursday during the proceedings in the Casey Anthony murder trial, reports WOFL-FOX TV-35 in Orlando. Bartlett had directed his middle finger at prosecuting attorney Jeff Ashton. "What is that symbol you are projecting with your fingers?" asked the judge. "I'm using my middle finger and I'm sorry," Bartlett stated. After asking repeatedly if Bartlett had any excuse for his behavior, the judge found him guilty and sentenced him to six days in the Orange County Jail. The judge also...

George Anthony gave some of the most damning testimony in the murder trial of his daughter today, saying that Casey Anthony was the last one to see Caylee alive. George Anthony also denied the prosecutor's claim that he had sexually abused Casey Anthony when she was a girl. Casey Anthony is accused of murdering her daughter, 2-year-old Caylee, and could face the death penalty if convicted. Her defense team argues that the toddler accidentally drowned in the family pool and that George Anthony helped dispose of the body. They also claim that he sexually abused Casey Anthony and that she...

Orlando, Fla. - As George Anthony took the stand at his daughter Casey Anthony's murder trial on Tuesday, the question on everyone's mind was asked of him by defense attorney Jose Baez, who inquired whether he had a romantic affair with Krystal Holloway. Although George answered in the negative, a number of legal pundits believe something more was going on between the two, which was the subject of discussion Tuesday evening on HLN's 'Dr. Drew' show. “This woman, Krystal Holloway, claims that she and George had this steamy affair, and says George confided in her all about Caylee`s disappearance,” said...

CORAL GABLES (LALATE) – The George Anthony suicide note and testimony today in the Casey Anthony trial portrayed him as a person with inconsistencies. George Anthony’s testimony, the defense argues, is full of lies. Anthony asserts he is playing both sides of the fence to help find his granddaughter Caylee. But in successful questioning Wednesday, the defense was able to prove that George Anthony is riddled with inconsistent positions. George Anthony told the jury today “Apparently I did say nothing but negative things about my daughter” during his questioning by investigators. Jose Baez was able to get George Anthony to...

A witness at the murder trial of Casey Anthony testified Tuesday that he was paid $15,000 by ABC News to license a snake photo. Meter reader Roy Kronk, who eventually found the body of 2-year-old Caylee Anthony, discovered a dead rattlesnake in the same area several months before. ABC News interviewed Kronk just after the body was discovered. The interview touched on the idea that snakes might have initially impeded a police search for the body, but it would be difficult to argue the snake photo was critical to ABC’s story. In fact, Kronk reveals the motivation behind the fee....

State prosecutor Linda Drane Burdick said an investigation into an Orange County Jail inmate indicates the woman had a daughter who had drowned and whose body was found by her grandfather. It is not clear if this information was conveyed indirectly to Casey Anthony, Burdick told Chief Judge Belvin Perry. It does not appear the inmate, April Whalen, spoke directly to Casey Anthony. It could become a relevant issue before the end of the case, she said. Earlier, Perry has found that Casey Anthony's lead attorney made substantial and willful evidence-sharing violations related to one of the experts who is...

Casey Anthony broke down in tears in an Orlando courtroom today as jurors heard how her daughter's bones had been chewed on by wild animals. The murder trial resumed after Anthony was taken ill yesterday when pictures of her dead daughter Caylee's skull were shown to the court. Jurors were shown photos of the tattered and torn shorts and shirt Caylee was wearing when she died. Later, as they viewed pictures of Caylee's bones, Anthony looked down, covering her mouth with her fist. As the gruesome details emerged Anthony started shaking and had to be comforted by defence attorney Dorothy...

Casey Anthony's murder trial was cut short today when she was taken ill after pictures of her dead daughter's skull were shown. Anthony cried and looked away as graphic photos of her two-year-old daughter Caylee's remains were shown to the jury at the trial in Orlando. Judge Belvin Perry had warned anyone who might become queasy to leave the courtroom before the images were displayed. Shortly after the images were shown he sent the jury home for the day, asking them not to speculate about why court was ending early. Earlier in the day Anthony's brother, Lee, testified his sister...

An FBI forensic expert said a hair removed from the trunk of Casey Anthony's car is consistent with hair from a dead body. That was the testimony of Karen Korsberg Lowe Saturday in Anthony's sensational murder trial. The 25-year old Orlando mother is accused of killing her 2-year-old daughter, Caylee. FBI expert Lowe said she examined a light-brown, 9-inch-long hair for this case. She said the hair was similar to one pulled from Caylee's brush and was not similar to a hair sample from Casey Anthony. Ms Lowe also said the hair showed characteristics consistent with decomposition. Anthony is charged...

An FBI forensic expert said a hair removed from the trunk of Casey Anthony's car is consistent with hair from a dead body. That was the testimony of Karen Korsberg Lowe Saturday in Anthony's sensational murder trial. The 25-year old Orlando mother is accused of killing her 2-year-old daughter, Caylee. FBI expert Lowe said she examined a light-brown, 9-inch-long hair for this case. She said the hair was similar to one pulled from Caylee's brush and was not similar to a hair sample from Casey Anthony. Ms Lowe also said the hair showed characteristics consistent with decomposition. Anthony is charged...

ORLANDO, Fla. — Casey Anthony told her parents in July 2008 she ached to come home from jail and see her missing child, according to a video shown to jurors on the ninth day of her murder trial for the child's death. In the jailhouse recording shown Friday morning, Anthony told her parents her "heart is aching" because she wanted to be home with them, and with Caylee. The state has shown a series of jailhouse visit videos over the past two days to highlight how, following her initial arrest, Casey continued to perpetuate her original story about a nanny...

Jurors looked stunned on Thursday as Casey Anthony, who faces the possibility of the death penalty if convicted of murdering her daughter two-year-old Caylee, started laughing in court. As she waited for the afternoon session to begin she smiled broadly, at one trying to cover up her giggles with her hand. Just a couple of hours earlier jurors heard dramatic tape recordings of detectives telling Casey Anthony that she risked being judged as a 'cold-blooded, callous monster' after she lied to them over her daughter’s disappearance

The sixth day of Casey Anthony's first-degree murder trial, which concluded late this afternoon, gave jurors a glimpse of the day her 2-year-old daughter Caylee Marie was reported missing. The prosecution continued to question Anthony's mother, Cindy Anthony, who cried and was clearly distraught during her several-hour testimony. Jurors heard the three 911 calls Cindy Anthony made, and also heard the first jailhouse phone call Casey Anthony made to her family. Cindy Anthony broke down in tears and slumped her body, nearly disappearing behind the stand, during playback of the 911 calls. Casey Anthony listened stone-faced and wiped a few...

Testimony resumes Thursday in the explosive trial of Casey Anthony, the Orlando, Florida woman accused of murdering her 2-year-old daughter Caylee, and RadarOnline.com is live streaming the proceedings starting at 9am ET. On Wednesday, Casey's former boyfriend, Tony Lazzaro, testified that Casey never acted upset or as if anything was wrong during the time her daughter was missing. PHOTOS: Casey Anthony Laughs In Court Caylee was last seen on June 16, 2008; her body was found in a wooded area a month later. Prosecutors said the girl died from three pieces of duct tape being placed over her mouth and...

State will call more witnesses on the third day of Casey Anthony's trial. Casey Anthony's ex-boyfriend will head back to the witness stand this morning on the third day of the first-degree murder case. The state called former beau Anthony Lazzaro on Tuesday afternoon, but court adjourned before defense attorney José Baez could finish his cross-examination. Prosecutors led up to Lazzaro's testimony by calling several of his former roommates and coworkers. They told the court Anthony acted happy and normal during the time when her 2-year-old daughter Caylee Marie was missing. The roommates testified that Anthony spent the night at...

Orlando, Florida - The judge presiding over the case of Florida murder suspect Casey Anthony warned lawyers Monday to expect long days in her upcoming trial and no more postponements. "This case must come to an end at some point. This case must be tried at some point," Orange County Circuit Judge Belvin Perry Jr. told lawyers at a status hearing Monday afternoon. Anthony's 2-year-old daughter, Caylee, disappeared more than two years ago, "and I know that everybody has placed this on their front burner," Perry said. Anthony has pleaded not guilty to capital murder in Caylee's death. Jury selection...

On Monday, a local Florida news outlet is set to air an interview with a prison inmate regarding letters between Casey Anthony and other inmates and an alleged conspiracy to fabricate a story about her, described in the headline as “Did Casey’s Pen Pals Lie?” Hal Boedeker of the Orlando Sentinel writes that Central Florida News 13 will air an exclusive interview with Robin Lunceford who spent an hour last week speaking to reporter Adam Longo at Lowell Correctional Institute in Ocala. She claims she met Maya Derkovic at the facility—one of the inmates who was pen pals with Casey...

Lawyers for the Florida mom charged with killing her young daughter want to interview the ex-wife of the meter reader who found the little girl's body. Attorneys for Casey Anthony are asking a judge Monday to let them depose the wife of Roy Kronk. He found the body of 2-year-old Caylee Anthony in woods near her home in December 2008. Casey Anthony's attorneys say Kronk's ex-wife is offering testimony that supports the contention that Kronk should be a suspect. Detectives have said repeatedly that Kronk is not a suspect and that the evidence points to Casey Anthony. Meanwhile, Casey Anthony...

Casey Anthony's attorney: Investigators never looked into Roy Kronk's background.Casey Anthony's lawyers on NBC's Today Show this morning said former meter reader Roy Kronk is as much a suspect in Caylee Marie's death as their own client, Casey Anthony. "There is as much circumstantial evidence implicating Roy Kronk as there is implicating our client," said Andrea Lyon, one of Anthony's defense attorneys, to Today's host Matt Lauer. "He's the only one who's been with the body. He's the only one who magically discovers it. He takes a day off before he discovers it in December." Lead defense attorney Jose Baez...

ORLANDO, Fla. — The grandparents of slain Florida toddler Caylee Anthony are set to make an appearance on The Oprah Winfrey Show sometime in May. The television talk show says Cindy and George Anthony will speak about their granddaughter and the investigation into her death. The interview with Oprah will be their first sit-down since Caylee's remains were found in December, six months after she disappeared. The girl's mother, Casey Anthony, has been charged with murder.